Thread: Decoding system knows what you think

Obviously, lie detectors will be a thing of the past, if the new system decoding actually works as promised. Developed by neurologists from the University of California at Berkeley, is a computer will go on the analysis of your brain activity, to know only what you are currently thinking. This has been made possible by the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (in layman in the face, in real-time scanning the brain) to record all human mental activity while viewing thousands of random images, which range from people to animals, landscapes, objects, and household belongings. These records will then be processed and used to predict mental character of the person in the future on the basis of a database accumulated. So far, tests with neurological periods to be generated by a set of photographs has proved to be an easy task for the decoder with a relatively high accuracy rate. I doubt machine can be fooled by thinking about food while looking at the machine, and vice versa.


According to Jack Gallant, a study co-author, "None that I know never would have guessed our decoder will do it well. One day, perhaps even be able to restore the visual content of dreams." Now that, of course, is largely help psychologists to help their patients on the road to recovery, where the psychological problems are concerned. Unfortunately, like most inventions, it could be a double-edged sword, depending on how you use it. Take for example the marketing campaign, which was skewed to maximize the psychological penetration. I think where a lot of jocks, perhaps you will see nothing, but after the announcement of Victoria's Secret ad and fast cars. Even scarier is though having their heads examined against our will simply because Big Brother "wants to be sure no acts of terrorism and crimes happen.